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泥棒 [ichi1,news1,nf15] 泥坊 [rK]
どろぼう [ichi1,news1,nf15] ドロボー (nokanji)どろぼー [sk]
1. [n]
▶ thief
▶ burglar
▶ robber
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1436900 泥【どろ】 2. thief
2. [n,vs,vt]
▶ theft
▶ burglary
▶ robbery

Conjugations


History:
5. A 2022-12-12 21:55:01  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
4. A* 2022-12-12 20:14:44  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
[vt]: shinmeikai, meikyo, etc.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬───────────┬───────╮
│ 泥棒   │ 1,206,051 │ 83.6% │
│ 泥坊   │     2,253 │  0.2% │ 🡠 rK (daijr/s, koj, etc.)
│ どろぼう │   146,287 │ 10.1% │
│ ドロボー │    82,360 │  5.7% │
│ どろぼー │     5,408 │  0.4% │ 🡠 sk
╰─ーーーー─┴───────────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
@@ -25 +26 @@
-<re_nokanji/>
+<re_inf>&sk;</re_inf>
@@ -35,0 +37 @@
+<pos>&vt;</pos>
3. A 2018-05-26 03:14:28  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
ルミナス
2. A* 2018-05-25 12:27:57  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I think this is better as two senses.
  Diff:
@@ -29 +28,0 @@
-<pos>&vs;</pos>
@@ -32,0 +32,4 @@
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<pos>&vs;</pos>
@@ -33,0 +37,2 @@
+<gloss>burglary</gloss>
+<gloss>robbery</gloss>
1. A 2018-01-30 03:07:01  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Unidic (has it as variant of 泥棒). G n-grams: 
ドロボー	82360
どろぼー	5408
  Comments:
As discussed in (abandoned) 2834444.
  Diff:
@@ -18,0 +19,8 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ドロボー</reb>
+<re_nokanji/>
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>どろぼー</reb>
+<re_nokanji/>
+</r_ele>

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